GPS Receiver and Auto Tint

reggiek945 · 04-16-2003, 01:30 AM

Has anyone had any good luck with this? I know it's been said that it doesn't work but I'm just curious if anyone has had any good lock with gps receivers in the car with tint. I just purchased a RAND MCNALLY GPS RECEIVER and was hopeing it might work in the back of my Tahoe that has tint. Thanks for any replies,

Reggie

I will post my result and pics of the Tahoe this weekend.

reggiek945 · 04-16-2003, 03:18 PM

Well I got my RAND MCNALLY GPS RECEIVER today and it works fine in the back of my tahoe with tint. I am so happy, I won't have to run long cables to the front of my truck, I am so tired of running cable LOL. It does work, I haven't put it through a very long test just drove around the block. I will make notes and show them here.

Reggie

reggiek945 · 04-16-2003, 08:59 PM

Fixed link to pictures.

OK here are some Pics, I haven't finished with the GPS install yet. I just have the wire losse but will get to that this weekend.

http://www.sounddomain.com/member_pa...page_id=121480

Let me know what you guys think,

Reggie

Defiler · 04-16-2003, 09:22 PM

I know when I had the RX-7 it had more of a "silver" tint and I had more issues with getting a lock than with my current car which has the normal "dark" tint. I also had issues with my alarm in the 7. It worked off of RF and I could stand ten feet away sometimes and I would have a problem with arm/disarm. But, again, with my current car I can be close to a 1/4 mile away and it works on a clear day.

The guy at the alarm store said it was due to the metal in the "silver" type of tint...So, if you've got silver this may be the problem...

ddt · 04-16-2003, 09:57 PM

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That's all I get when I try to view the pics.

reggiek945 · 04-16-2003, 10:01 PM

Hey ddt are you still haveing problems? Let me know,

Reggie

MP3DUB · 04-17-2003, 12:22 AM

I can't view the pictures either, and metalic tints have been known to cause problems with anything RF (grps, wifi, radar).

samc · 04-28-2003, 12:11 PM

When I tried the rand Mcnally gps antenna on my rear window -2002 Jetta

I would get some problems such as longer lock times, and just bad directions sometimes. That could be copilot error.

But now I ran the cables to the fron underneath the windshield, no tints

It works perfectly fine now. And the satellites lock on the second I run copilot.